198 articles
Nic Jones
Nic Jones hasn't been the same since he first heard the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Anthony Braxton's quartet with Kenny Wheeler around 40 years ago. He lives in Oxfordshire, quietly and curiously.
Reviewed: Joe Henderson | Laura J. Marras | Wartel, Wartel, Wartel Collins, Landæus
Joe Henderson: Consonance - Live At The Jazz Showcase
By now, the beyond-casual reassessment of a musician's work ought to be second nature. The retrieval...
Reviewed: Woody Shaw | The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe | QOW Trio
Woody Shaw: Love Dance
For me Woody Shaw will always embody the culmination of a trumpet lineage that starts with Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro...
Reviewed: Dave Adewumi | Kris Davis & The Lutoslawski Quartet | Bjorn Meyer
Dave Adewumi: The Flame Beneath The Silence
Trumpeter Adewumi comes with endorsements from the likes of pianist Jason Moran, a musician whose first album had...
Reviewed: Rich Brown | Vincent Courtois | Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rich Brown: Nyaeba
Gone surely are the days when the "success" of a solo instrumental album was measured by how the musician managed to cover...
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Better Do It Now, Before You Die Later
As of 2025, Sonny Simmons - saxophonist, player of the English horn and composer - embodies a strand of the jazz tradition that's been...
Reviewed: Harper Trio | Billy Hart | Mark Sherman
Harper Trio: Dialogue Of Thoughts
Given the state of this world I guess we could use all the pleasant surprises we can get. In this...
Reviewed: Russ Lossing | O.N.E. | Mark Turner
Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert (Blaser Music Songs 003CD)
Pianist Lossing is on this basis working in areas outside the conventional finger-busting that the line-up of...
Reviewed: David Bailis | Patricia Brennan | Steve Tintweiss & The Purple Why
David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Triple 1 Music)
Bailis is one of those guitarists who at one and the same time display a relatively...
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Have Horn, Will Travel
If the idea of a "journeying" musician has substance then the man known professionally as Junior Cook embodies it as easily as Brew Moore,...
Reviewed: Mark Masters Ensemble | Jon Irabagon’s PlainsPeak | Joanna Eden
Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri Records 74176-2)
On the basis of the evidence this album provides, tenor sax player Billy Harper should...
Reviewed: Ron Blake | Mark Masters Ensemble | Louis Stewart
Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7tēn33 Productions LLC002)
Saxophonist Blake has in the past worked with both Art Farmer and Roy Hargrove, facts which offer more...
Reviewed: Angelini, Abdou, Niescier | Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness | Tony Tixier
Angelini, Abdou, Niescier: Lotus Flowers (Abalone Productions AB035)
Pianist and composer Bruno Angelini is but one of the three names new to me on this...
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